Better auto-stacker: based on camera mode

Now automatick stack creation uses only time difference between frames. But many cameras record mode (single frame/continuous shooting) into EXIF, and this information can be used to create stacks (something like option "Stack only continuous shooting frames" option).
Other useful option could be to stack only bracketed sequences of images. Many cameras record bracketing information to EXIF too.

Use dbms_advisor.implement_task
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Auto stack based on image similarity

Can you implement this in Lightroom 3 please? Copy the implementation in Elements 8. Having similar looking images stacked together would be extremely useful.

The same thing has been reported for the T410. You can see how to fix it here:
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It appears to occur anytime you are on battery and the intel graphics power plan is set to anything other than 'maximum performance.' It's pretty subtle, but really annoying when it happens.

Auto-stack on import in Aperture 3?

My recollection of the Aperture 2 trial was that I could choose to auto-stack, based on times, while importing images. I can't seem to find the option to do that in Aperture 3. Once the images have been imported into a project, I can then have them auto-stacked, but they don't seem to come in that way.
Am I missing something obvious in Aperture 3? Did I hallucinate this feature in Aperture 2?

I've found a way to do it, but it's not as intuitive as it was in Ap2.
The box that shows which images will be imported now as a little check-box by it, and they all start ticked, by default. You have buttons, up top, to check all, or uncheck all. And the button down in the lower right is now labelled "Import Checked," when I think on used to have the option to "Import All" or "Import Selected" (after you'd done normal style multiple selection on the files).
There's an auto-stack dialogue, that you can access at any time from the stacks menu, but you can't actually move the slider unless images are selected. So, on import, do a command-A to select all (as opposed to the check all that's done by default), and then open the auto-stack dialogue and set your time, and you can see how things will stack. Then, press "Import Checked" (assuming they're all still checked), and the images will come in, and already be stacked as they were at the source. So, it's available, but nowhere near as friendly to use as it was.

Importing from camera, auto-stack doesn't work

Hi all,
I've been using aperture for a while now. According to the manual Aperture should be able to do an auto-stack to the imported pictures and I can see the interval seconds slider on the import page. My camera is Canon 5d and I'm importing raw pictures.
My problem is that if I touch the slider, it creates one huge stack of all the images on the camera memory card. So if it does an autostack, it treats all images as if they'd been shot at the exact same second. This is illustrated also if I tell aperture to sort the not yet imported pictures according to shooting time. They just appear in a random order after that.
When the pictures have been imported, there is a correct shooting time/date in the EXIF information of the pictures. I'm not even sure if this is an aperture problem or a camera setting problem. When I look at the pictures on the camera screen, I can see the correct shooting time even in there.
Any ideas?
/hv

Not sure if this would make a difference, but are you importing the photos directly from the camera or are you using a card reader with your memory card?

Auto-Stack stacks erractically

I have problems with auto-stack -- the stacks are more-or-less random. Unrelated photos are grouped, yet ones take only a few seconds apart are not stacked. This seems consistent every time I've tried it. Adjusting the time slider just ends up with a very slow response. The latest project I'm trying it with has 1600 pictures from 3 different cameras, but even continuous sequences from the same one are messed up. I've tried it on reduced selections -- same problems.
I've given up with it and do it all manually now.
Anybody got it working properly?
G5 dual 1.8 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) Olympus E-1, E-300 (+ Canon Digital Ixus V2)

I noticed with my Canon XT that there is a bug in Aperture stacking when you first connect the camera up. Perhaps this is causing your problems as well. In my case when the camera is hooked up, and aperture automatically goes to the import mode, all photos on the camera have the same date and time, so the stacking doesn't work properly. What I do to work around it is cancel the import mode, and then turn the import mode on again (click on that arrow in top left corner). This causes all the images to have the correct time in the import window, and stacking works correctly.

Improve Auto-Stack and Process Collections with user settings

I have read through all of the Bridge request discussions, and encountered a few comments on the stacking process but nothing to explain my critique and feature request. My apologies for any redundancy.
Bridge CS4 includes two features that would (virtually) streamline my entire photo-organization workflow. Brilliant! Except that they offer zero configuration and my default scenario is very different from Adobe's, so these two would-be-wonderful features are pretty much useless to me, and to anybody else who doesn't happen to shoot in the way the presets are configured.
The first feature is to automatically group images into stacks, based on their similarity, exposure settings, and timestamps. Unfortunately Bridge considers no minimum or maximum amount of photos per stack, and has a fixed timestamp window of 18 seconds. I shoot everything in three-exposure bursts and sometimes multiple shots in less than 18 seconds, so being able to say "process collections in 3-item stacks only" would be absolutely perfect. For other people, being able to limit the timestamp range or other min/max exposure options would work great.
The second feature, which could save me hours every week but is equally useless, is to automatically process collections in Photoshop. My biggest ire about this function is that it completely ignores stacks that I have manually created AND stacks that were previously created using the auto-stack feature. Every time this function is run, it re-runs the auto-stack process from scratch and then delivers the collections to Photoshop. Not only is this made useless by the previously mentioned inflexibility of the auto-stack process, but even if auto-stack worked perfectly, this would waste time by doing the entire thing again and denying the user the option to review the stacks before committing to the Photoshop processing. The process collections feature would also be much improved if the option were given to process ONLY panoramas or HDR photos, or auto-detect. I have never shot a panorama in my life and I'm sure plenty of people have never shot HDR, but Photoshop isn't capable of knowing our intentions and there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to instruct it.

Agree. It is an interesting capability that falls short of being really useful. I feel like an ingrate to complain, but ...
I'd also like to see the capability to specify something than "Auto" for the panorama option. My experience is that most of my panos work best with "Cylindrical + Geometric Correction".
My experience is that once you get past 5+ images in a pano, it becomes very tedious ... and then 20+ images in rows is painful. Unlike a single image that you can quickly evaluate, with panos I find I need to make the pano to tell if it going to turn out. I have been generating smaller 1800x1200 or 1200x1800 files to speed up the evaluation process, but it is still very manual and tedious.
The Auto-Stack generates a AutoCollectionCache.xml, but I haven't found it workable to edit this. I'd like to be able to modify it to "force" my knowledge of what is in a group. It seems to check the time-stamp, and re-do the Auto-Stack, thus ignoring my changes. Sigh.

CS4 Bridge Auto stack tool makes my computer Crash

I'm using a modern computer running Windows XP, 3 GB of memory , a modern video card with 1 GB of memory and the latest drivers, Photoshop CS 4 (with the latest updates), and the bridge auto-stack panorama/HDR doesn't work. When I click on the tool I get an error message that says "images missing preview data (then the image name) within okay box. This repeats on and on, until a file is created named "auto collection cash.XML). It would appear that the process is complete however this is not the case as bridge locked up and I can't access the stack. Closing and reopening bridge allows me to delete the XML file. I can then unstacked the images. Incidentally, if I manually select the files, I can successfully use either the panorama, or HDR tool, so it would appear that it's not a problem with the files themselves. If I use the auto stack tool on JPEG files it works. If I use it on any folder with raw files (in this case canon CR2), the 'images missing preview data" dialog box opens up.
Recently, I worked with several Adobe support technicians, who came to the conclusion that I had a problem with my Windows user file, and not with Photoshop and bridge. I accepted this principle and created a new user account in Windows, I used the Adobe downloadable uninstall program (to clean out Photoshop and any registry entries). I then reinstalled Photoshop and re-created my preferences etc. and found that the auto stack tool worked fine. It's been about two weeks, and as you may imagine there is an ongoing development and improving of the Windows user file. Yesterday I found the auto stack lockup problem has returned.
Can anyone suggest why I'm having this problem? I'm aware that I can repeat the above, but I'm concerned that it will not solve the problem long term. This auto stack tool could be very helpful, but I'm not sure it's worth all the time and effort to fix it only short-term.
Michael

Hello: I notice that no one has replied to your post. That is a shame. I am having the exact same problem that you described and it is happening in two different macs running the latest version of Leopard, OS 10. 5.8. I believe the problem is with Adobe and not your operating system, or any corrupted files in your user files. Have you had any luck solving your problem? If so, please share it with me, as I think our problems are related. Thank you, GuruDog

Auto Stack Freezes Program

I have a Dual 2.5Ghz G5 with 7GB ram and a Nvidia 6800 Ultra video card - well over the recommended specs in everyway. I am having issues with Autostack being slow (hours) and/or hanging the program. I have tried importing 6900 medium sized jpegs (shot with a Nikon D2h) from a folder containing a older projects I am doing, which seems like it should be with within the capablities of the program with the hardware I am using. I will then select auto stack, and can move the slider slightly to adjust the time interval before the program gives me the spinning beachball, which it will then spend hours trying to process or will then freeze the program indefinitely (I let it go for 11 hours once) at which time I have to force quit it.
I then tried it with a ancient project with jpegs from a Nikon Coolpix 950 which produced a averagew file size of less than a 1 Mb. I Auto-stacked 650 photos but still had the beach ball and it took about 10 minutes to complete- much longer than I expected with such small files.
I have not tried RAW files yet.
I hope somene has a answer on how I can possibly alleviate the problem, the auto stack is one of my favorite features so far when I can get it to work.
Even with this problem I can say this program is awesome. It's very power hungry, but truly unlike anything I have used and a excellent 1.0 effort.
Dual 2.5ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Maybe this is why in the training DVD supplied with Aperture Apple recommends using the auto stack feature at the time of import from memory card or camera. There's a slider at the bottom of the import page which, if memory serves me correctly, does the auto stack command. This way you'll be stacking only say 100 raw images from a 1gb card and the numbers won't get too taxing.
Still, this should be a fairly simple fix for Apple to sort out so here's hoping they get on the case sharpish! I think the auto stack HUD is loading each individual image instead of just working with the attached data.
Power Mac G5 dual 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2.5GB RAM, 9800 Pro graphics

Netscape in CAM mode in a SunRay

Dear friends
I have a script for start Netscape browser with two different profiles. The way for identify which profile to use, is the identification of the Mac Address of the device, for this I use the SUN_SUNRAY_TOKEN environment variable.
I have an identified device for tests and the script works fine when is executed in a window terminal, after the solaris authentication (for test), but when is executed in CAM (Control Access Mode) the script doesn't work, and execute the else block of statements.
I need execute the script always in CAM, but apparently the SUN_SUNRAY_TOKEN var is not valid in CAM.
Does somebody know how to make the script works fine (identifying correctly the mac address) ?
The script:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to start Netscape in CAM mode
/opt/SUNWns/netscape -CreateProfile $USER
NSPREFDIR=`ls $HOME/.mozilla/$USER/`
if [ "${SUN_SUNRAY_TOKEN:14:12}" == "0003ba3c0e4c" ]
then
cp /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/NS7/localstore1.rdf $HOME/.mozilla/$USER/$NSPREFDIR/
cp /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/NS7/prefs1.js $HOME/.mozilla/$USER/$NSPREFDIR/
else
cp /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/NS7/localstore2.rdf $HOME/.mozilla/$USER/$NSPREFDIR/
cp /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/NS7/prefs2.js $HOME/.mozilla/$USER/$NSPREFDIR/
fi
/opt/SUNWns/netscape -P $USER
Thank you
Luis A. Gonzalez

How would ANY player know that a single song file is part of a larger song?
The only way is, if there's a tag built into the song, which I haven't seen yet.
Your best bet, if you don't want to re-rip the entire track, is to simply use a 3rd party app and join the songs together. Unfortunately, unless the original rips were spot on the beginnings and ends, you're going to have to fidget with it to get them to sound seamless. However, some rips will prevent that, no matter what you do, short of re-ripping the entire song.

Auto Stack JPG's in Front of Raw

Hi,
I shoot everything JPG plus Raw. I have a number of reasons why, but would rather not make this post any longer..... I would like to be able to view everything in my library with all JPG's stacked in front of the RAW with the same file name. I have been able to Auto-Stack by time (setting time to Zero Seconds) does this. The Problem is that the NEF's appear first in the stack. I want the JPG's first, always. I can figure out any way to do this automatically. It looks like I would have to manually change which file is first. I shoot thousands and thousands of files, I need to automate this. How can I do this?
Secondarily, does anyone know how I could apply a star rating to just the jpg and have it also apply to the raw file?
Thanks

impactsystemsDT wrote:
Thanks for the question. Here is an example of why
Yesterday - Easter Egg Hunt at my House. I shot about 300 pictures. Raw plus Jpg. I want to go through them and I'll choose about 25-35 shots to document the event and perhaps make a photo book that I can keep for us and send to a few friends. I want the JPG's for this purpose. My JPG's generally look quite good. I do pretty good job with my in camera capture and settings. So, I want to be able to either spend zero time on these 25-35 shots or perhaps just 30 seconds to 1 minute on some or all to crop, vignette or some very quick adjustments, make my book and I'm done. My wife is happy, my friends are happy and I have somehting to remeber the event.
Then I will then have 2-5 really nice shots that I'll want to really work on. I might spend 10-20 minutes on each of these. I will generally process the raw file for the purpose. Occassionally the JPG's are just fine, so I'll just process those a bit further. I'll end of with a 2-5 "Hero" shots of the event. I might use these to add to the photo book or to print or add to my portfolio. Often I might just tag them to work tomorrow or next week or even next month when I have more time.
So I want to go select my 25-35 shots from the 300 with a simple pick off the JPG's, then the one's I really want the very best quality and versatility I.d like to be able to click on the stack (JPG in Front, Raw behind total of just 2 shots) and work the Raw file (the Negative). I don't ever have time to process more than a handful of Raw shots from any one shoot and frankly 95% of the time the JPG's look as good as the Raw files even after a fair amount of processing, so I really only need to process the Raw file on certain types of files. Having said that I am a very competent at processing and use combination of lightroom, photoshop, NIK, OnOne and Topaz. I just don.t need to do post capture and pre-out sharpening, cloning, healing, content aware fill, gradient filters, advanced color processing etc... on 98% of my files. The JPG's I create are good enough most all the time.
It seems that many people would want to work this way. I don't to rate all of the JPG's and the Raw's. I just want the Raw's (negatives) behind the JPG's so I can dive into them if I need to for the 5% or so of the files that I really want to spend time on. That doesn't mean I won't use the the other 95% (well more like 10%), it just meanst that the jpg's are just fine to email to friends or make photo books. Not every file that comes out of Lightroom is supposed to be the cover of Sports Illustrated. Raw and the JPG that I captured are the same file and it should be treated as such. Importing as the same file doesn't give you any access to the JPG so I don't see the purpose.
agree with your workflow and raw+jpg should be linked as same file (as in aperture)

Auto-stack doesn't work

I am new to Aperture and am exploring all of it's features. Unfortunately I cannot get auto-stack to work. I have a project with 900 pictures. When I slide the auto-stack slider to the right, I get a spinning ball. After a minute it looks like the images have been stacked. When I close the auto-stack HUD, all the stacking disappears again. Am I doing something wrong here? I do not think it has to to wit my MBP. It has to be fast enough.

Not sure if this would make a difference, but are you importing the photos directly from the camera or are you using a card reader with your memory card?

Auto-Stack by Capture Time: results don't match selected interval

I selected a collection of 2075 images in Grid mode, and invoked Auto-Stack by Capture Time, with "Time Between Stacks" set to 0:10:00. This resulted in all images being grouped into 7 stacks -- but the difference in capture time between one stack and the next stack was only a couple of seconds.
I then changed the interval to 0:20:00, and repeated the Auto-Stack command. This resulted in all images being grouped into 4 stacks -- and again, the difference in capture time between one stack and the next stack was only a couple of seconds.

Thanks Bob for that very fast reply!
But neither "Modifying hal configuration" nor "Using the Desktop Environment settings" (xfce) worked. So I tried the "I don't want this crap, how do I turn it off?" solution and well it works
Maybe I turn it back on in a month or so.. but for now i'm fine with no hot plugging but a working keyboard...
Thanks and Bye!
smax
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Auto-stack bracketed raw images?

When I execute the auto-stack panorama / HDR command on a directory filled with exposure bracket groups intended for HDR processing, Bridge issues a warning message "Image is missing preview data" apparently for each and every image it inspects. If I click through however many warning messages come up, eventually, the command properly stacks the raw images.
I actually tried the build and export cache feature, exporting a cache directly to the directory of raw images I wanted to stack. That did not help. Still get the same warning message over and over again.
Can anyone help me with this issue?

I actually tried the build and export cache feature, exporting a cache directly to the directory of raw images I wanted to stack. That did not help. Still get the same warning message over and over again.
Never used this before (I always first sort and rate my files manually) but tried it on a folder and first time had two of those messages (but there where a few other files- already fused using Photomatix- and some layered etc etc. that might have caused that). Then I tried it with a bunch of HDR and Panorama files (already saved as tiff for use in Photomatix BTW) that I placed in a new folder. Now the result was better but to be honest not completely flawless, it left out 1 file out of 4 stacks from total 22 files.
Then tried again on the folder before and this time no error messages but also a pretty lousy result I'm afraid. Some clearly 1 stop difference series of 6 shots divided in 2 stacks so I stick with my manual method
However it might be a cache related problem for you. If you have one folder for testing first try a purge cache for folder using the menu tool / cache / purge cache for folder and try again

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When I first got my ipod, I would hook it up to my computer and it would automatically synch with my itunes. But then I took some pictures with my ipod and downloaded the pics. Now everytime I hook up my ipod to my computer, it reads it as a camera and asks if I want to download pics. It is driving me crazy. I haven't used my ipod as a camera since that one time, and I need to get it back to automatically synching when I hook it up. It's like it is not being recognized as an ipod. Is there something I can do to get my ipod out of camera mode and back to ipod mode. Also, i got a speaker system to hook up my ipod to and it is not "picking up" the ipod when I hook it up. the music will not come out of the speakers and I think again it is an issue of my ipod being in "camera" mode. HELP!!!

As mentioned in your other post, disable the camera notification, shown here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1500
But you'll have to be logged in with administrative rights, to change the settings.

Auto-stack by name

One feature that I feel is currently missing from Lightroom is the ability to *automatically* stack multiple versions of the same images when they are(/were) made outside of Lightroom. Usually, these versions are related to each other by their name. It would be convenient if there were an auto-stack function that would use the file names to determine which files to stack.
Such a function could split the file names into a base name and a suffix, and stack all images with the same base name. Preferably, there should be a couple of ways to determine the base name:
1) Use a user-definable suffix delimiter (for example '-').
2) Use a fixed base name length (n characters).
3) Use a pattern (such as 'P##??-', where # is any digit and ? is any character)
I think this simple function would greatly improve the ease of use of stacks, especially when using Lightroom alongside other applications.
Simon

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. This could be easily implemented by dragging the 'stack by time' slider all the way to the left. Currently, this simply splits all stacks, like the 'unstack' command.
The only (minor) disadvantage of this method would be images that have no, or inconsistent, time information, such as composites or JPGs with stripped headers. Despite this, stacking by identical date/time would certainly be a good start.

Better auto-stacker: based on camera mode

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